Reformed: Noel with partner Sarah McDonald, brother Liam Gallagher and his wife Nicole Appleton at the Q Awards in 2005

And the rest, as they say, is history. The Wonderwall singer made his confession to his pal, comedian Russell Brand, on his Radio 2 show.

Noel, a father of two, has made no secret of taking drugs in the past, and recently claimed that all the songs he wrote before 1997 were done with the help of 'the old Colombian marching powder".

He added: "Don't forget, I was on drugs before I was even in a band. The whole of the first three albums were written on drugs. " I think, ' Maybe I should get back into taking drugs, and then it would be brilliant again'.